Written answers
Tuesday, 17 December 2019
Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
Research Funding
Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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303. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the amount of funding to be allocated to the Disruptive Technologies Innovation Fund over the lifetime of National Development Plan 2018-2027; the amount allocated in each year over the 2018 to 2020 period to the fund; the amount of funding allocated for each approved project in 2018 and 2019, in tabular form; and the amount issued in payments to date. [53059/19]
Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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The Disruptive Technologies Innovation Fund (DTIF) is a €500 million fund, established as one of the National Development Plan investment priorities under Project Ireland 2040, which will run from 2018 to 2027. The Fund forms a key part in the delivery of the Pillar 1 goal of Future Jobs Ireland to embrace innovation and technological change. It will see investment in the development and deployment of disruptive innovative technologies and applications, on a commercial basis, targeted at tackling national and global challenges.
While the fund was launched in 2018, the Government committed an initial tranche of €180m over the first four years, with funding to be allocated each year from 2019 to 2022, as follows:
Year | DTIF |
|---|---|
| 2019 | €20m |
| 2020 | €30m |
| 2021 | €40m |
| 2022 | €90m |
As each project funded is a multi-year project of up to 3 years, the capital allocated to projects to date is reflective of this. A total of €140m has been allocated to 43 projects under Call 1 (27 projects with a commitment of €75 million) and Call 2 (16 projects with a commitment of €65 million), as set out in table 1 and table 2. It is important to note that the funding amounts shown in these tables are the amounts sought by consortia for their projects. Each company partner in all 43 consortia is matching this funding. The DTIF funding awarded is of course subject to verification checks as to the eligibility of the amounts claimed, in line with State Aid rules, and the relevance of the costs to the terms of the Fund.
Enterprise Ireland, who are administering this Fund on behalf of my Department, has informed me that payments totalling €12.2m have issued to the project partners involved in the successful projects under Call 1 with further payments in train.
Table 1: DTIF Call 1 (2018) Successful Projects
Project Title | Consortium Members | Project Summary | Funding sought (subject to costs verification) |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Disruptive Gene Therapy Platform, Replacing Viruses in the Treatment of Genetic Conditions | Amryt Pharma, Curran Scientific Ltd, University College Dublin, DEBRA Ireland | This project aims to disrupt the Viral Gene Therapy Market using a new Polymer-based Delivery Platform. | €8.4m |
| HOLISTICS - Holistic Human Sensing for Health, Aging and Wellness | Tyndall National Institute, DABL, PMD Solutions, De Royal, Setanta, University College Cork Lero, Sanmina, Design Partners, VRAI, Henkel, ADI, HRB CRF-C, University College Cork Insight | HOLISTICS will create for the first time in Ireland, a disruptive Smart Wearables Industry Value Chain to deliver end-to-end HealthTech solutions based on emerging human-centric intelligent sensors and their wireless communication (abbrev. WSN) to support new products. | €7.4m |
| AuriGen Solution for Persistent Atrial Fibrillation | Aurigen Medical Ltd, University College Cork/Tyndall, National University of Ireland Galway (TMD LAB) | This project will finalise the development and move to commercialisation, a cardiac implant to treat the stroke and arrhythmia risk associated with longstanding atrial fibrillation. | €5.9m |
| ‘The Future of Colorectal Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment: Combining Tissue Responsive Probes, AI and Machine Learning to Transform Medical Care’ | RCSI, Deciphex, IBM Research, University College Dublin | This project aims to transform the diagnosis and surgical treatment of Gastro-Intestinal (GI) diseases, specifically cancer, by allowing decision-support information to be available when needed for faster and more accurate interventions for patients. Applications will be developed in surgery and diagnostics using AI and machine learning. | €5.7m |
| Therapeutic enzymes as a treatment for sepsis and other immune disorder diseases | Cala Medical, Curran Scientific, University of Limerick | This consortium has a disruptive technology, Cytoflow5, for the treatment of sepsis. The technology will be further expanded to disrupt areas currently dominated by monoclonal antibodies and thus disrupt the biologics area. This will result in a panel of new therapies for the treatment of diseases including sepsis, psoriasis, arthritis and Crohn’s disease. | €5.0m |
| Towards safe and effective off the shelf cellular therapy for cancer | Onkimmune, Janssen, National University of Ireland Galway | This project will develop a disruptive, optimised, off-the-shelf Natural Killer (NK) Cell therapeutic platform for the treatment of multiple cancers. | €4.3m |
| Photonics Manufacturing Pilot Line | Tyndall National Institute, Ficontec, MBRYONICS, Eblana Photonics, Sanmina Ireland, Faztech | This project will build a physical Photonic Packaging Pilot Line in Ireland designed to fill the gap that exists today, i.e. to fabricate tens to hundreds of units. The Photonic Packaging Pilot Line Hub will A) develop packaging designs tailored to fast cost-effective packaging processes and equipment and B) develop and install next generation packaging equipment (including test) with reduced cycle-times. | €4.1m |
| Microfluidic Gene Transfection Cell Analysis and Sorting Platform (GTCASP) | Cellix Ltd, Trinity College Dublin Physics, Trinity College Dublin Med, National University of Ireland Galway | This project will see the company deliver new cell manufacturing solutions to the pharma industry, building on excellent scientific research in gene therapy. | €3.4m |
| Cooperative Energy Trading System (CENTS) | International Energy Research Centre, MPower, MSemicon, TemplederryRenewable Energy Supply, University College Cork, National University of Ireland Galway, DIT | CENTS (Cooperative Energy Trading System) is proposing a disruptive technology platform for the electricity sector where consumers and communities will be empowered with the necessary infrastructure to generate their own electricity, earn from the excess electricity generation, and finally, to be an integral part of decarbonizing their homes and communities for sustainable living. With CENTS a software solution for a blockchain enabled cooperative peer-to-peer energy trading platform will be provided and necessary hardware requirements and market/regulatory strategies will be proposed. | €3.0m |
| Nex | Davra Networks, DANALTO, INTEL, Dublin City University | The goal of this project is to provide a reliable, verifiable and secure end-to-end remote patient monitoring system which has rich data, affordable & reliable network connectivity, machine learning and data integrity at its core. | €3.0m |
| ARDENT II | Neurent Medical Ltd, National University of Ireland Galway | Neurent Medical is creating a new therapy for patients suffering from rhinitis that will give the patient immediate and long-lasting relief from their symptoms and remove the need to take daily medication to manage their condition. | €2.8m |
| Medical Imaging Ireland | IBM Ireland, Nova Leah, University College Dublin, DKIT, Davra Networks Ltd | Medical Imaging Ireland (MED-I) will build a platform offering enabling technologies which can host, manage, process and analyse image and text data and brings together the entire ecosystem of actors in the medical imaging domain. | €2.2m |
| ArtEngine 2.0: Bringing Automated, AI-Driven 3D World Creation to Market | Artomatix, Black Shamrock, WarDucks, Keywords | This project leverages Artificial Intelligence to automate the creation of 3D models and worlds,However, the cost of 3D content creation is prohibitive for small studios and this project is an enabler for the development and adoption of AR/VR. | €2.0m |
| HYDRO-fish: Combining targeted nutraceuticals and traceability technology for a smarter and sustainable Irish fish aquaculture industry | National University of Ireland Galway, Bio-Marine Ingredients Ireland, Teagasc, Marine Institute | HYDRO-fish is a multi-disciplinary research programme, specifically designed to employ current technologies from other sectors to disrupt and enhance current fish farming practices. The project entails reinforcing the supply chain of Irish salmon production, in particular for organic salmon farming. | €2.0m |
| BioHealx | Signum Surgical Ltd, Anecto Ltd | This project uses the BioHealx device (a bioabsorbable implant) to treat anal fistula and reduce surgical complexity. | €1.9m |
| E-BAMBI - Enhanced Biocompatibility of Additively Manufactured Biomedical Implants for Improved Clinical Outcomes | SEAM Research Centre, Schivo Medical, Graph Treatments Ltd, STRYKER, DIT | This project will develop Additively Manufactured (using 3-D printing), Biocompatible, metallic components for the medical device industry. The project will focus both on the creation of implants with improved functional properties such as drug elution and also on metallic structures that can be absorbed into the human body when they have successfully completed their clinical function. | €1.9m |
| High throughput microfluidic drug screening platform | HookeBio Ltd, CIT, CAPPA, National University of Ireland Galway | The HookeBio platform is a disruptive technology that will allow pharma companies and clinicians to develop more accurate and responsive disease models for drug testing and may be expanded to testing of existing therapies on individual patient’s disease samples. | €1.9m |
| Optimised commercial-scale cultivation of protein-rich biomass from Palmariapalmata for the generation of health enhancing plant based proteinaceous ingredients. | Allihies Seafood, Carbery, University of Limerick | This project aims to sustainably generate plant-based proteinaceous ingredients for exploitation as a source of high quality protein and contribute to meeting the growing global demand for plant-based proteinaceous ingredients for animal and human consumption. | €1.8m |
| Future Software Systems Architectures | Dublin City University &Lero, FOURTHEOREM, FINEOS | This project will leverage the internet network capability (and to some extent the Internet of Things) as a means to rapidly operationalise new software features. Central to this project will be the capacity to transform traditional slow software development organisations into rapid feature delivery firm. AI research is also a feature | €1.6m |
| Irish Lasers for the Internet of the Future (iLife) | Pilot Photonics, Dublin City University and Trinity College Dublin | This project proposes a solution to the impending “capacity crunch” problem for optical telecommunication and datacentre networks using optical frequency comb sources, a new type of laser which can replace the single mode lasers that have been used in long haul optical transport equipment for two decades. | €1.6m |
| Connected Medical Device Cybersecurity Transparency | Nova Leah, DKIT | This project will see the use of Artificial Intelligence, Data Analytics and Blockchain techniques to provide a real-time platform for the two-way communication of safety-critical security information (i.e. vulnerabilities, threats) between Medical Device Manufacturers and Hospitals. | €1.5m |
| Creating the Bionic Man: Development of a “neural training suit” to assist individuals with sensorimotor impairments. | Trinity College Dublin, Biomedical Research | This project aims to develop the “Swiss-Army Knife” of Neurorehabilitation, a multifunctional neuromotor training suit. The suit will integrate an array of wearable biological sensors and a multisite neuromuscular stimulation system. | €1.5m |
| Beyond Food Labelling | IdentiGEN, University College Dublin | Using massively multiplexed Next Generation Sequencing to provide a crypto-anchor for food authentication and as a substitute for costly, error prone labelling and certification systems | €1.4m |
| Advanced Environmental Decision Support System for Coastal Areas | Techworks Marine Ltd. Dublin City University | This project will provide an advanced environmental decision support system to address issues such as coastal pollution and flooding. Such a system will provide enhanced insights to coastal industries, local authorities, government agencies and will ultimately benefit Irish society. | €1.1m |
| Smart-Cardio – A Paradigm shift in Cardiac Arrhythmia Treatment | Atrian Medical Ltd, National University of Ireland Galway | This project will develop a medical device for treatment of atrial fibrillation (AF) that will lead to substantially improved outcomes over current treatments. In addition, it will alter how arrhythmia treatment services are provided to patients – throughput in hospitals and clinics will be dramatically increased and per patient costs will be reduced. | €1.1m |
| DEFINE-AM – Disruptive Finishing using Electrochemical machining for Additive Manufacturing | Blueacre Technology, Trinity College Dublin | The DEFINE-AM project consortium aims to develop an innovative Computer Numerical Controlled (CNC) Hybrid Laser-Jet Electrochemical Machine tool with 5-axis of motion that addresses the challenges of post-processing 3D-printed metallic parts i.e. parts produced by the Laser Metal Deposition (LMD) additive manufacturing technique. | €1.0m |
| Blockchain in the Technology Product Supply Chain | Exertis Supply Chain Services, Sonalake, University College Dublin (CeADAR) | This project aims to implement a Production blockchain to transform the Technology Product supply chain. | €1.0m |
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